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Date:      Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:44:08 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net, jhugo@meraka.csir.co.za, mrossi@swin.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 accept_rtadv + bfe0
Message-ID:  <4EA23C08.6060906@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111019.162942.833544516395329713.hrs@allbsd.org>
References:  <201110182200.19244.jhugo@meraka.csir.co.za> <0BF0188F-777F-4FC3-9DB3-48FE22ACC31A@lists.zabbadoz.net> <4E9DFE11.2070203@swin.edu.au> <20111019.162942.833544516395329713.hrs@allbsd.org>

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On 10/19/2011 00:29, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Mattia Rossi <mrossi@swin.edu.au> wrote
>   in <4E9DFE11.2070203@swin.edu.au>:
> 
> mr> So the _ipv6 bit doesn't take care of passing "inet6" to ifconfig
> mr> automatically?
> 
>  No.  You always need to add the inet6 keyword wherever needed.

That seems redundant, and contrary to how the IPv4 equivalents work. And
obviously it's confusing to users. From what I can see looking at some
7.x and 8.x systems it also seems to be a POLA violation.

Perhaps this is something that you should reconsider?


Doug

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